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Chagas cardiomyopathy
Disease Summary
Associated Targets ()
Mondo Description A disease of the cardiac muscle developed subsequent to the initial protozoan infection by trypanosoma cruzi. After infection, less than 10% develop acute illness such as myocarditis (mostly in children). The disease then enters a latent phase without clinical symptoms until about 20 years later. Myocardial symptoms of advanced chagas disease include conduction defects (heart block) and cardiomegaly.
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Description from Mondo Disease Ontology.
DataSources which have contributed target associations to this disease, and the identifiers by which the disease is referenced.
EFO:0005529
ICD9:086.0
MESH:D002598
SCTID:998008
MONDO:0005491
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